Sounds moving in the woods

 On a typical night after my wife goes to bed early I will take the dog out in the yard with a decent flashlight to relieve myself at the edge of the patio. Looking up at the starts as I go. Listening to the woods  I usually only hear the trucks on the interstate, the  wind blowing through the trees, and occasionally an owl. This night I heard something way off to the left.

So I went into the house and grabbed my night vision  camera and IR flashlight to light of the woods. I had just mounted it on a new rach and clipped it  into the tripod and noticed a flaw in my setup. I had mounted the camcorder inside a u shaped rack with 2 flashlights above it for fill lighting, one white and one IR. However the camera was mounted mid way  up its length to the rack. This prevented the door on the left of the camera from opening up and properly turning on the view screen so I could see what I was doing. As I struggled with the screws to dismount the camcorder I hear the sound moving from left to right. The sound was very similar too the Ohio howl sound recorder in Salt Fork park Ohio. But this sound was very brief almost as if it were an owl moving through the woods. It seemed to be paralleling route 82 north of my house moving left to right stopping occasionally to hoot. If it were following 82 it would have moved almost a mile across my field of view. Eventually the noise stopped, just as I got the camera working. I took some more video of the typical night sounds. I packed up the camera and went back in the house. Immediately I went to Amazon to order some brackets so I could properly use my camera ont he new rack. I even found my omnidirectional microphone which  came with the night vision camcorder, mounted it properly with a fuzzy wind guard. Everything is all set, batteries charged, cera door clearance double checked, and test video taken. 

Everything is ready for my next night adventure into my back yard.

ASUS ROG Strix Flare Repeating Keys

I had been using my ROG Strix flare for over 2 years. Then one day all of a sudden the keys started repeating. Even more frustratingly the delete and backspace keys did the same thing so correcting the issue was even more frustrating.

My main computer setup is in my living room and I use it for gaming, web surfing and general video watching. I have cable only for internet service. The room is about 24x12 and my recliner is about 12 ft from my computer and 65 inch tv. I use 3 usb extension cords to connect to 2 USB 3.0 hubs and a 24" 2K TV with a usb 3 hub built in.

My big mistake was skimping out on the quality of the USB extension cables. Furthermore I never paid attention to the color of the tongue in the usb extension cables. I had plugged one of the extension cables with a white tongue from my computer to the USB 3 hub which connected to my ROG Strix Flare keyboard. Apparently I only had 1 good USB 3 extension cable. Up until the problem occurred I had the keyboard hub plugged in to the proper extension cable. After swapping out some components from my computer I swapped the cables, plugging what apparently was a usb 2.0 cable in to my USB 3.0 hub.

Then the problems started.

When signing in to my computer the password box became very difficult to type in with repeating keys. As if something was slowing the whole computer down so the keyboard wasn't working properly. Oddly Notepad did not exibit the problem. However nearly everything else did show the problem. Web chat windows were even worse.

To resolve the problem I got purchased UGREEN 2 Pack USB Extension Cable from Amazon. I threw out the old cables and installed the new ones.

WALLAH the problem disappeared.

Moral of the story...

• Dont mix USB 2.0 extension cables with USB 3.0 hubs.
• Always match the tongue color of the cable with the port you plug in to.
• If you have a fancy keyboard with 2 plugs and pretty lights, only plug it directly in to your computer or to a properly powered hub.

USB Tongue Colors

I figured this out by referring to A Simple Guide to USB Port Colors and Their Meanings.

The sloweat and meant for low powered devices like keyboards and mice are the white or black tongues. Blue(3.0), Teal/Red/Yellow (3.1 or 3.2) are the fastest. yellow indicating it is always on and can be used for charging while the computer or latop is off.

White ports on motherboards typically indicate it is used to flash the bios with nothing on the board. They will usually have some kind of button next to them to do this like the Gigabyte boards do.

See this video which I followed to flash one of my computers successfully.